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LOL Bien Sûr. :) Chez Cartier SVP Love those huîtres...and yes they do have the nouveau- essness going on... miam miam...kindly do not tear hair...you would have to wear chapeaux...hm....berets are kind of macaron shaped now that I think of it...that could work...Bno matin, cherie!!

Your post stirred up the Romantic in me this morning, Carol.I always felt the flowing lines of Art Nouveau to be very sensual, like the hands of a lover; moving; enveloping. I'm reminded of Klimt, of course, and Beardsley.What a way to start the day.Bill

Morning Carol, (it is in Australia anyway!)These pics make me realise what it actually is that I love so much about Paris...especially the metro entrances and the pic of the cafe table etc just stirs something inside, strange isnt it. Is it true you have NOT been to the top of your beloved tour eifel? NON.. Ce n'est pas vrai!Cheers to allJill

Thanks for these kind references to my blog ... and to our nice lunch! (I saw the comments by "anonymous", but the steak tartare was good!)

You asked a question about who created the kiosques? I don't know. Have tried to find out. The design, basically always the same and obviously dating from the end of the 19th century, is clearly related to the advertsing columns you find everywhere in Paris, called Morris columns ("colonnes Morris" which were introduced a bit earlier, in the middle of the 19th century) and somehow also to the Wallace water fountains, introduced around 1870. The number of kiosques is again increasing, but most are of course just copies. I don't know if any of the original ones are still around.

After visiting Orsay two weeks ago, I started noticing all the Art Nouveau Metro signs which I just passed by in the past. They really are art works. I love the photo montages on your blog. A bientot. Cynthia in the French Alps

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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